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Exodus 20:1-17. The words of the covenant. Close foreground of ordinary Hebrew families listening with awe at the foot of Sinai, faces turned toward the cloud-covered mountain. The assembly itself is the focus. No elevated speaker, no Moses, no named leader, no tablets, no deity figure and no lettering. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 20:1-17

The words of the covenant

Story guide: God gives the commandments shaping worship and life together.

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1And God spoke all these words, saying:

2I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of servants.

3You shall have no other gods before me.

4You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.

5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers on children, on the third and on the fourth generations of those who hate me,

6but showing steadfast love to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments.

7You shall not bear the name of Yahweh your God falsely, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished the one who bears his name falsely.

8Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner within your gates.

11For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day. Therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.

13You shall not murder.

14You shall not commit adultery.

15You shall not steal.

16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

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